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Arabella M. Willson
A 19th-century writer whose work brought together religious biography, women’s history, and Civil War remembrance. Her books preserve the stories of missionaries and soldiers through a deeply personal, documentary style.
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Lives of the three Mrs. Judsons
by Arabella M. Willson
About the author
Also credited as Arabella W. Stuart, Arabella M. Willson was an American writer associated with religious biography and historical nonfiction. Her best-known work, Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons, traces the lives of Ann H. Judson, Sarah B. Judson, and Emily C. Judson, three women missionaries to Burma.
Willson also wrote Disaster, Struggle, Triumph, a detailed history of the 126th New York Regiment during the American Civil War. The book combines military events with biographical sketches of officers and enlisted men, reflecting her interest in preserving individual stories within larger historical events.
Her surviving letters and diary entries, published as Arabella’s Letters, offer a more intimate view of her observations, travels, and inner life during the 1820s. Together, these works present a thoughtful writer drawn to faith, courage, service, and the lives of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances.